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Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : lord and peasant in the making of the modern world / Barrington Moore, Jr. ; with a new foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott.
- Title
- Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : lord and peasant in the making of the modern world / Barrington Moore, Jr. ; with a new foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott.
- Author
- Moore, Barrington, 1913-2005
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, 1993.
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- Description
- xxv, 559 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy is a comparative survey of some of what Moore considers the major/most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. As the title suggests, Moore is not ultimately concerned with explaining economic development so much as exploring why modes of development produced different political forms that managed the transition to industrialism and modernization. Why did one society modernize into a "relatively free," democratic society (by which Moore means England) while others metamorphosed into fascist or communist states? His core thesis is that in each country, the relationship between the landlord class and the peasants was a primary influence on the ultimate form of government the society arrived at upon arrival in its modern age.
- Subject
- Geschichte 1500-1950
- Sozialgeschichte 1500-1950
- Geschichte 1500-1950
- Sozialgeschichte 1500-1950
- Social history
- Economic history
- Revolutions
- Social classes
- Social Conditions
- Social Class
- Histoire sociale
- Histoire économique
- Révolutions
- Classes sociales
- social history
- revolutions
- social classes
- Politics and government
- Demokratie
- Politik
- Revolution
- Wirtschaft
- Entwicklung
- Demokratisierung
- Diktatur
- Dictatuur
- Democratie
- Sociale aspecten
- Ditadura
- Democracia
- Revoluções
- História econômica
- História social
- Histoire économique > 1500-.... (Période moderne)
- Révolutions
- Régimes politiques
- Classes sociales
- Histoire sociale > 1500-1800
- Totalitarisme
- Démocratie
- Revolution
- Asia > Politics and government
- Asie > Politique et gouvernement
- Asia
- Indien
- Grande-Bretagne > Histoire
- France > Histoire > 1789-1799 (Révolution)
- États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
- Asie > Histoire
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 524-546) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part 1: Revolutionary origins of capitalist democracy. England and the contributions of violence to gradualism ; Evolution and revolution in France ; The American Civil War : the last capitalist revolution -- Part 2: Three routes to the modern world in Asia. Note : problems in comparing European and Asian political processes ; The decay of imperial China and the origins of the communist variant ; Asian fascism : Japan ; Democracy in Asia : India and the price of peaceful change -- Part 3: Theoretical implications and projections. The democratic route to modern society ; Revolution from above and fascism ; The peasants and revolution ; Epilogue : reactionary and revolutionary imagery -- Appendix: A note on statistics and conservative historiography.
- ISBN
- 0807050733
- 9780807050736
- LCCN
- 93017802
- 9780807050736
- OCLC
- 28065698
- SCSB-12421475
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library